The Wreck of the Reuben Lee

"But no one could figure out how to move the almost 45-foot-wide, 190-foot long, 65-ton behemoth. Museum officials consulted one man who had moved spacecraft and another familiar with lifting heavy things with military helicopters. Both deemed the Reuben E. Lee impossible to move. After a year or so of searching for a buyer, the museum gave up."

Ashley Powers in the Los Angeles Times reports on the demise of Newport Beach's landmark Reuben E. Lee.